Price of average grocery basket falls by 3%

The start of the year saw the price of an average basket of grocery items fall by three per cent compared to January 2016.

According to grocery price comparison site mySupermarket, shoppers are paying 15 per cent less for apples, 11 per cent less for grapes and nine per cent less bananas when compared to December prices.

mySupermarket‘s monthly Groceries Tracker also found that the price of a basket of 35 popular items came to £82.27 compared to £83.33 for the month previous.

Shoppers continue to enjoy reduced prices on many fresh items, despite supply shortages towards the end of the month, including broccoli which were five per cent cheaper, mushrooms and fruit juice which were both down by four percent, plus six per cent cheaper fruit yoghurt.